63strat Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 All of the sudden today my Logic sessions have been hit by spinning beachballs whenever I hit record, bounce to disk, or bounce regions, etc. Hitting record results in about a 12 second delay after which recording commences. Same with bouncing. This is in a brand new session as well as an older one. I've tried all sorts of things like removing certain plug-ins, but no luck. Any suggestions as to how to get rid of this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 You're using RAID setups for your projects? If yes, you might consider otherwise, since RAID is sometimes slower for audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63strat Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 This is actually on my laptop, a 2011 MacBook Pro, with no RAID. However, I do have an SSD as a system drive and it's showing up as corrupt, and repair disk doesn't fix it. I had the same problem with another OWC SSD on my desktop Mac last month. So much for life on the bleeding edge. I'm in the process of using Carbon Copy Cloner to create a new system drive from the SSD. Hope it works, sounds too good to be true... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Bummer. So far I haven't heard too many success stories with SSDs. Still not proven for heavy audio work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63strat Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 Well, I ran CCC over night, using the Apple factory HD as the new boot drive (which checks out fine), but the spinning beachballs are still there on Record and Bounce. Hmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Anything connected to your computer when you hit record? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63strat Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 I remembered I had this problem a few years ago, and it was due to having Journaling Enabled on the boot drive. Well, I turned it off and no more beachballs, no delays at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 That's strange. Journaling should be on for the boot drive to aid disc recovery when things go bad on the software side. Do you ever record to an external firewire drive? That way you take load off the boot drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63strat Posted September 18, 2011 Author Share Posted September 18, 2011 Yes, I usually always record to an external SATA drive, but this was on my MacBook Pro because my desktop Mac is not working right at the moment. I did turn journaling off on the external drive, but I think I should've restarted for it to take effect. I'm setting up an external now since I'd rather have journaling on for the system drive, like you said. BTW, for what it's worth, my new 2.3 Ghz 2011 4-core MacBook Pro blows away my 2008 3.0 Ghz 8-core Mac Pro with Logic, never woulda thunk it...I'm going to permanently switch to the MacBook Pro until the new desktops come out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63strat Posted September 18, 2011 Author Share Posted September 18, 2011 Update: it looks like it's Spotlight's constant indexing that's causing the problem, not journaling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 That's right. Spotlight is a pain how it works in the background. Thanks for sharing the solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redlogic Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Update: it looks like it's Spotlight's constant indexing that's causing the problem, not journaling. If you have a Bootcamp partition, add it to the Privacy window in Spotlight Preferences. That will prevent the Bootcamp partition from being indexed by Spotlight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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